The willingness to share does not make one charitable; it makes one free.

There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment.

If an artist has talent, he needs no other critic.

Just as important as having a list of priorities is every once in a while starting from the bottom.

Who does not wish to be beautiful, and clever, and rich, and to have back, in old age, the time spent trying to be any of them.

Alexandros of Antioch took a block of marble and chiseled away from it everything that was not his masterpiece, the Venus de Milo. If you will chisel away one fault from your character every day, you may discover - a) that you're actually a statue of Margaret Thatcher. b) that you're still just a block of marble. c) that there are pigeon droppings on your shoes. d) that you, too, are a hidden masterpiece.

All my life I've wanted, just once, to say something clever without losing my train of thought